ALBUM REVIEW: BOYGENIUS – THE RECORD

Boygenius: the band in full control of your emotions. Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus formed the supergroup only five years ago in 2018, and have been storming their way to the top of the indie-rock scene ever since. Their first EP, ‘boygenius’, released when the group first formed, blessing us with the masterpieces […]
With a packed-out schedule and the entering of a new electronic era DMA’S are ready to impress. Embarking out to festivals such as Y Not, Live at Leeds and Tramlines festival this summer, as well as a run of tour dates across the UK in April. The album couldn’t have come at a better time.  The Australian trio consisting of Tommy O’Dell (vocals), Matthew Mason (lead guitar and backing vocals) and Johnny Took (acoustic guitar), blending seamlessly together to […]

ALBUM REVIEW: DMA’S – HOW MANY DREAMS?

ALBUM REVIEW – SISSOKO SEGAL PARISIEN PEIRANI: LES EGARES

At its best, music can be a balm that sees all stresses evaporate. That is certainly the feeling generated by the opening track of ‘Les Egarés’, ‘Ta Nye’, each note a carefully placed finger on the temple, massaging away anxiety. ‘Les Egarés’ is the work of a quartet consisting of Ballaké Sissoko (kora), Vincent Segal […]
Katie Gately mines the seismic events in her life for musical inspiration. In her 2020 album, ‘Loom’, she channelled the loss of her mother through sampled sounds sourced from coffins closing, meat smacking, elephant trumpets, cantaloupe stabs and earthquakes. Her latest release, ‘Fawn / Brute’, sees her exploring the flipsides of childhood energy following the […]

ALBUM REVIEW – KATIE GATELY: FAWN / BRUTE

ALBUM REVIEW: INSPIRAL CARPETS – THE COMPLETE SINGLES

There are certain bands whose music has the power to transport you back to a particular point in your life, all it takes is a few notes, and your mind drifts into nostalgia, the days and nights out, friends you knew back then. Listening to ‘The Complete Singles’ by Inspiral Carpets I’m instantly back in […]
A first post-pandemic album by the group avoids market rollouts and a concept-heavy narrative in favour of showcasing the band’s effect on pop’s today and tomorrow, to include a strong new future.  I finally won! I finally did it! I listened to a Gorillaz album and absolutely loved it. Involving nuance features that arguably differ […]

ALBUM REVIEW: GORILLAZ – CRACKER ISLAND

ALBUM REVIEW – THE FREE MUSIC: THE FREE MUSIC (VOL 1)

Habibi Funk is a German-based record label that has been dedicated to releasing an eclectic range of high-quality unknown or neglected music from the Arab world since 2015. Their latest excellent release marks a departure for Habibi Funk as the acts they featured previously experimented with soul or funk for a couple of tracks before […]
It might be glib to suggest that anyone apart from government sponsored purveyors of dodgy PPE had a good pandemic but Ajay Saggar definitely used the time productively. Between January 2021 and June 2022, he spent most days at his Soundation Studios recording and mixing music aided by a top team of collaborators, the result […]

ALBUM REVIEW – BHAJAN BHOY: TO LOVE IS TO LOVE (VOL.1 & 2)

ALBUM REVIEW: GNOOMES – AX OX

A psychedelic twist on electronic music is what Gnoomes have been carefully crafting over their four albums, now having fled their home country of Russia, and relocated elsewhere, their latest album is awash with hypnotic electronica. Opening track ‘Ural Sun’ sounds like a dystopian dream, with deep rumbling sounds which build into a mountainous soundscape […]
It takes bravado to open an album with a track that feels like a close sibling to an all-time classic symphonic pop song, ‘I Saw The Light’. With its piano line echoing Todd Rundgren’s melody, indulging in jigs with dual saxes, a brilliant dip as most the instrumentation temporarily drops out leaving a solitary piano […]

ALBUM REVIEW – H HAWKLINE: MILK FOR FLOWERS